Blurring the lines - my exciting term with Year 9 Science
You may have seen from a previous post that we have been working towards aligning our junior curriculum across the 'core subjects' to offer more opportunity for cross-curricular learning. At the whole school level, we assigned themes to terms. This gentle approach allowed for buy in, and buy out. An English teacher and I, who teach the same class, decided to buy in. It started with conversations over morning tea (it helps that we tend to gravitate towards each other in the staff room). Innocuous conversations around "What are you doing with 9xx at the moment?" On one fortuitous day, we could see a link, she was doing poetry, I was doing planets, and she suggested they do poems about planets. She had a cool example of a Magic Box poem lesson , and wanted students to be imaginative about what it might be like to be on the planet. They got to work on their poems in both English and Science, and thought that was pretty cool, as they got to ask us both questions.